Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl
StoryParable★★★★One was an optimistic soul.
But the other took the gloomy view.
“We’ll drown,” he lamented without much ado,
And with a last despairing cry,
He flung up his legs and said “Goodbye.”
Quote the other frog with a steadfast grin,
“I can’t get out but I won’t give in,
I’ll just swim around till my strength is spent,
Then I’ll die the more content.”
Bravely he swam to work his scheme,
And his struggles began to churn the cream.
The more he swam, his legs a flutter,
The more the cream turned into butter.
On top of the butter at last he stopped,
And out of the bowl he gaily hopped.
What is the moral? It’s easily found…
If you can’t hop out, keep swimming around!
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The point
Two frogs fall into a bowl of cream; one gives up and drowns, while the other keeps swimming, churning the cream into butter, and escapes. The moral is to persevere even when escape seems impossible.